Genre search:General Nonfiction

The Information: A history, a theory, a flood

by James Gleick
Paperback, 2012
Tags
nonfiction, history, information, information theory, popular-level, tpb
Call number
020.9

Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America

by Pekka Hämäläinen
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
history, american history, native american history, hb, unread
Call number
970.004

One Summer: America, 1927

by Bill Bryson
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
history, us history, twentieth century, hb
Call number
973.91

In the Heart of the Sea: The tragedy of the whaleship Essex

by Nathaniel Philbrick
Paperback, 2001
Tags
nonfiction, history, whaling, disasters, moby dick, tpb
Call number
910.916

The Botany of Desire: A plant's-eye view of the world

by Michael Pollan
Paperback, 2002
Tags
nonfiction, botany, nature, artificial selection, apples, tulips, potatoes, ftpml, tpb
Call number
304.27

The Silk Roads: A new history of the world

by Peter Frankopan
Paperback, 2016
Tags
history, world history, asia, tpb, couldn't finish
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
909

The Code Book: The evolution of secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots, to quantum cryptography

by Simon Singh
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
nonfiction, history, cryptography, hb
Call number
652.809 21

What an Owl Knows: The new science of the world's most enigmatic birds

by Jennifer Ackerman
Hardcover, 2023
Tags
birds, bird behavior, natural history, biology, owls, hb, unread
Collection
Recently Read
Call number
598.9/7

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

by Steve Brusatte
Paperback, 2023
Tags
unread, paleontology, biology, mammals, tpb, coverguess unavailable
Call number
569

The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain

by Bill Bryson
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
travel, uk, britain, humor, hb
Series
Bill Bryson's Complete Notes (3)
Call number
914.104/8612

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the prison of belief

by Lawrence Wright
Paperback, 2013
Tags
religion, scientology, history, tpb, jane's
Collection
Jane's
Call number
299.936

What's the Matter with Kansas?: How conservatives won the heart of America

by Thomas Frank
Hardcover, 2004
Tags
nonfiction, politics, hb
Call number
978.1/033 22

1493: Uncovering the new world Columbus created

by Charles C. Mann
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
nonfiction, history, world history, columbian exchange, hb
Call number
909.4

Notes from a Small Island

by Bill Bryson
Paperback, 1997
Tags
travel, england, humor, tpb
Series
Bill Bryson's Complete Notes (1), Bill Bryson's Travels (3)
Call number
914.104/859 20

The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the birth of modern geology

by Simon Winchester
Paperback, 2001
Tags
tpb, nonfiction, history, geology, biography, history of science
Call number
550.92 S664Wi

How to keep house while drowning : a gentle approach to cleaning and organizing

by KC Davis
Paperback, 2022
Tags
self-help, god help me i bought a self-help book, cleaning, spoons, tpb
Call number
648

The Mother Tongue: English & How it Got That Way

by Bill Bryson
Paperback, 1990
Tags
nonfiction, history, language, english language, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
420.9 20

The Origin of Species: Complete and fully illustrated

by Charles Darwin
Hardcover, 1979
Tags
hb, unread, nonfiction, biology, evolution
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
575.0162

The Genius of Birds

by Jennifer Ackerman
Paperback, 2016
Tags
biology, animal intelligence, birds, bird behavior, tpb
Call number
598

Drift: The unmooring of American military power

by Rachel Maddow
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
nonfiction, history, american history, military, politics, hb
Call number
306.2/70973

Your Inner Fish: A journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body

by Neil Shubin
Paperback, 2009
Tags
biology, evolution, anatomy, paleontology, nonfiction, tpb
Call number
611

The Glass Universe: How the ladies of the Harvard Observatory took the measure of the stars

by Dava Sobel
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
women's history, history of astronomy, harvard observatory, annie jump cannon, henrietta levitt, cecilia payne, hb, history of women in tech
Call number
522/.19744409252

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

by Tom Standage
Paperback, 2006
Tags
nonfiction, history, beverages, coffee, tea, beer, wine, food history, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
394.12

1177 BC: The year civilization collapsed

by Eric H. Cline
Paperback, 2015
Tags
history, bronze age, ancient history, archaeology, tpb
Call number
930.1/56

Moneyball: The art of winning an unfair game

by Michael Lewis
Paperback, 2003
Tags
nonfiction, baseball, economics, statistics, sabermetrics, tpb
Call number
796.35764

The Girls of Atomic City: The untold story of the women who helped win World War II

by Denise Kiernan
Paperback, 2014
Tags
history, american history, wwii, manhattan project, women's history, oral history, tpb
Call number
976.873

How the Mind Works

by Steven Pinker
Paperback, 1999
Tags
nonfiction, cognitive science, tpb
Call number
153 21

I'm a Stranger here Myself: Notes on returning to America after twenty years away

by Bill Bryson
Paperback, 2000
Tags
humor, essays, tpb
Series
Bill Bryson's Complete Notes (2), Bill Bryson's Travels (4)
Call number
973.92 21

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

by Richard P. Feynman
Paperback, 1986
Tags
nonfiction, memoir, feynman, mmpb, coverguess unavailable
Series
Feynman Memoirs
Call number
530.0924 B 19

The Perfectionists: How precision engineers created the modern world

by Simon Winchester
Ebook, 2018
Tags
history, history of engineering, history of technology, precision, gears!, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
620/.009

The Language Instinct

by Steven Pinker
Paperback, 1995
Tags
nonfiction, linguistics, language, tpb
Call number
400 20

On the Map: A mind-expanding exploration of the way the world looks

by Simon Garfield
Paperback, 2012
Tags
nonfiction, early reviewer, arc, maps, history, cartography, geography
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
912.09 G18 2012

Godel, Escher, Bach: An eternal golden braid

by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Paperback, 1980
Tags
nonfiction, cognitive science, tpb
Call number
510.1 21

Stuff Matters: Exploring the marvelous materials that shape our manmade world

by Mark Miodownik
Ebook, 2014
Tags
materials science, chemistry, engineering, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
620.1/1

A crack in the edge of the world: America and the great California earthquake of 1906

by Simon Winchester
Paperback, 2005
Tags
nonfiction, history, geology, california, disasters, earthquakes, san francisco, 1906 earthquake, tpb, coverguess unavailable
Call number
979.461051

The Worst Hard Time: The untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl

by Timothy Egan
Paperback, 2006
Tags
history, us history, american history, dust bowl, nonfiction, tpb
Call number
978/.032

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the elements of good cooking

by Samin Nosrat
Hardcover, 2017
Tags
food, cookbook, food science, flavor theory, hb
Call number
641.5

Cosmos

by Carl Sagan
Hardcover, 1980
Tags
nonfiction, astronomy, popular-level, hb
Call number
520

Unmentionable: The Victorian lady's guide to sex, marriage, and manners

by Therese Oneill
Hardcover, 2016
Tags
humor, history, women's history, victorian, hb
Collections
Jane's, Previously Owned
Call number
305.4209034

The book of eels: Our enduring fascination with the most mysterious creature in the natural world

by Patrik Svensson
Paperback, 2020
Tags
natural history, translation, biology, eels, tpb
Call number
597.43

History of God

by Karen Armstrong
Paperback, 1994
Tags
nonfiction, religion, monotheism, history, history of religion, judaism, christianity, islam, tpb, ftpml
Call number
291.211

Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific

by Christina Thompson
Paperback, 2020
Tags
history, world history, polynesia, pacific ocean, polynesian history, tpb, unread
Call number
996

The Oregon Trail: A new American journey

by Rinker Buck
Paperback, 2016
Tags
travel, american history, oregon trail, tpb
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
978

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

by Jack Weatherford
Paperback, 2004
Tags
history, nonfiction, mongolia, genghis khan, tpb
Call number
950.21092B

Cooked: A natural history of transformation

by Michael Pollan
Paperback, 2013
Tags
cooking, food, bread, stews, braises, barbecue, fermentation, brewing, tpb
Call number
641.5

Africa is Not a Country: Notes on a bright continent

by Dipo Faloyin
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
history, world history, africa, african history, geopolitics, sociology, hb, unread
Call number
960.33

Atlantic: Great sea battles, heroic discoveries, titanic storms, and a vast ocean of a million stories

by Simon Winchester
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
history, geography, oceanography, atlantic ocean, hb
Call number
551.46/13

The Violinist's Thumb: And other lost tales of love, war, and genius, as written by our genetic code

by Sam Kean
Hardcover, 2012
Tags
nonfiction, biology, genetics, hb
Call number
572.8

Galileo's Daughter: A historical memoir of science, faith, and love

by Dava Sobel
Paperback, 2000
Tags
nonfiction, biography, galileo, tpb
Call number
520.92 B 21

1421: The year China discovered America

by Gavin Menzies
Paperback, 2004
Tags
nonfiction, history, china, dubious, tpb
Collections
Reviewed, Previously Owned
Call number
910.95109024
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